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~~*Microsot's videogame business may had been up because they bought videogame business such as ZeniMax/Bethesda/IDSoftware, Activision/Blizzard and Mojang/Minecraft.~~
Crazy the first time I saw this thing was a random game (featured) on Itch.io
VAT in Australia is 10% (ref), but there are other things that effect the overall price (company's obligation, regulations etc.)
You may eared it as Lumberyard, a game engine made by Amazon (after buying a CryEngine's license) GamefromScratch
...or the videogame is known to make views on youtube.
Anyway, this don't undermine the intention of the developer.
People generally loving, generally hating.
Valve is not that good if you take your time to realize few things more, Valve is not that bad if you take time to realize few things more.
For example, you can't say that Ubisoft can be that bad if you take a look at the industrial grade artistic output (allow you travel and interact with artistically astonishing worlds).
But when you check side as business entity, you can see everything is set up to please share holders and people that don't even know "what's a minecraft?".
Valve knows how, when and why they mess with their customers. Ubisoft is just clueless about their gamer-customers because they known only theirs shareholders-customers.
'keep fighting on until there's an ultimate victory'*
- (asterisk). "their ultimate victory"... the day Apple and Google gives the little shit they want for themselves, Epic return to be a good servant: exactly as they are for both Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo today. We get the stuff we want, then screw everybody else.
You didn't see Tim Sweeney that much active in the campaign for StopKillingGames: let's make sure only publishers, and the publisher we're happy with, to have political weight.
Not everyone remember that the actual first Metal Gear was a microcomputer (PC before it was cool to call that) exclusive... on the MSX2